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Rock Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. It stands on Rock Hill. The Survey maps it on the New Summerfield quadrangle.

Rock Hill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Rock Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking12
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 110
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 527
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 856 AND CR 4716
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2274 N
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service397 PENNY LANE
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service715 CR 4227
25 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service79&110
25 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 576

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pine Hill1.4 miles11
Lone Star1.6 miles11
Emmaus3.2 miles15
New Summerfield3.8 miles11
Griffin5.3 miles15
Stryker Creek Junction5.8 miles11
Ponta5.9 miles11
Concord6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378966. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.